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In 1940, Estonia was first occupied and then annexed by the Soviet Union. The process of Sovietization started immediately and was accompanied by a thorough reconstruction of the economy. This monograph looks in detail at the different stages of economic restructuring...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-28
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In the early Middle Ages, the conversion of the early English kingdoms acted as a catalyst for significant social and cultural change. One of the most visible of these changes was the introduction of a new type of household: the monastic household. These reproduced...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-27
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In late nineteenth-century Russia, a series of organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement for the purposes of providing aid to political prisoners and exiles. Those leading these endeavors framed them as a philanthropic exercise that was...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-27
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In the aftermath of the First World War the Western great powers sought to redefine international norms according to their liberal vision. They introduced Western-led multilateral organizations to regulate cross-border flows which became pivotal in the making of an...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-26
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This book explores the role of the British Police in home food production during the First World War, a critical time when decreasing food imports threatened population starvation around the country. Drawing from the police’s most popular weekly journal, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-25
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This book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of consequences of the Cold War for various countries and regions focusing on politics, economy, culture, and memory – according...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Stephen I, Hungary's first Christian king (reigned 997-1038) has been celebrated as the founder of the Hungarian state and church. Despite the scarcity of medieval sources, and consequent limitations on historical knowledge, he has had a central importance in narratives...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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Male Professionals in Nineteenth-Century Britain is the first statistically-based social, cultural and familial history of a fast-growing and socially prominent section of the Victorian propertied classes. It is built around a representative cohort of 750 men who were...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-25
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The book proposes a new category – heterotopia of affect – which builds upon Michel Foucault’s typology.The category refers to changes of the places that accumulate contents of ideological, historical, religious, and national character.The book tells the history of a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2024-06-25
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Drawing on over a decade of meticulous research, this comprehensive book unveils the intricacies of traditional Persian ink making by examining the treatises of Persian master calligraphers. Explore the historical tapestry of calligraphy, get insight into the lives of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-24
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Robert Beale (15411601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and international policymaking. In spite or perhaps because of the voluminous record he left behind, he has never been the subject of a dedicated biography, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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Der Band befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der gegenwärtigen Beziehungen zwischen zivilen Akteuren und staatlichen Machtstrukturen.Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Themenfeld der öffentlichen Kontrolle von Streitkräften und der Frage, warum zivile Akteure ein wachsames Auge...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-06-23
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This book reexamines the socioeconomic and political transformation that occurred in Brazil during the 1940s as a result of the Second World War. Integrating social and political history, the author explores the adoption of new policies around state-sponsored...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-22
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This book examines the succession debate in England during the reign of Elizabeth I. It considers the succession question in its entirety, instead of dividing the topic into early or late periods as has been typically the case. Commencing with a consideration of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-21
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The purpose of this book is to understand how and why “liberators” of South Sudan have become perpetrators of ethnically driven violence. How and why did violence happen immediately after independence in South Sudan?South Sudan slid into civil war in December 2013, just...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This volume explores the political life of rage as it has been experienced and mobilized in the Francosphere since 1968. If mai is remembered as a failure to convert insurrectionary feeling into lasting political change, the vast number of activist groups who have...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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Based on relevant research from domestic and foreign academic circles, this book focuses on the path choices and transitions of the main political forces of Germany (the emperors, the princes, the Imperial Cities and the peasants) in the early modern political and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-17
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This book explores portraits of significant women living in central and southeastern Europe whose lives and activities remain unknown, uncovering their lifestyles as well as the social entanglements relating to their education. The book also examines transnationality...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-14
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
During a crucial period in opera's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-14
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On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta. With a flag fluttering in the wind beside them, a Bible open to the twelfth chapter of Romans, and a flaming cross to light the night...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-14
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